Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current group of three Junior PBK electees are the first to be chosen since April of last year, which accounts in part, Sherman said, for the small PBK membership...
...suggestion was not the bright idea of an armchair strategist. Five carefully chosen men, working twelve to 18 hours a day for eight weeks, had finally brought it forth. When it was done, the State Department's Committee on Atomic Energy passed it along to Congress, without endorsement but with unanimous agreement that it made the most sense of any proposal yet. Not even Major General Leslie R. Groves, unreconstructed defender of military-security-before-all-else, objected to the letter of transmittal in which Under Secretary Dean Acheson's committee declared...
...bombs from hitting their targets. And just a few bombs, he feels, will be enough Before the start of World War III writes Physicist Edward U. Condon of the National Bureau of Standards, atomic saboteurs may sow the U.S. with hidden volcanoes waiting to erupt on a chosen Pearl Harbor day. "A target, to be safe must be surrounded by a sanitary area at least a mile in radius. Any house can be as dangerous to its surroundings as the greatest of powder magazines. Twenty thousand tons of TNT can be kept under the counter of a candy store...
...dead hand of the past on a living person; a study of the Manichaean heresy (the notion that the Devil is as powerful as God and that they struggle for supremacy); the galloping putrefaction of American letters; the galloping putrefaction of moral and political values. Author Wilson has also chosen to write literally (and incidentally) about sexual intercourse. As a result, Memoirs of Hecate* County will probably be hailed as an event in gaminess...
...affairs, talked tough as U.S. Ambassador in Buenos Aires last summer, U.S. hemispheric policy had been aimed at the overthrow of Argentina's Strong Man Juan Perón. Last week Washington policy-makers knew where that policy had got them: 1) Argentines, in free elections, apparently had chosen Juan Perón their President; 2) the U.S. would have to try a new tack...